On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 14:59:37 +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 08:14:05 +0000, Jurij Smakov wrote: > > > Thanks for providing a patch, it has been on my todo list for a while, > > however I was not able to find time to take care of it so far. > > > > One of the users affected by this problem has confirmed that booting > > with 'video=atyfb:off' provides a workaround for this issue [0]. It > > has now been (or should be) documented in release errata [1]. > > > > [0] http://bugs.debian.org/609466 > > [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2011/01/msg01001.html > > I can't see that on http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/errata, did that get missed? > That's the errata for d-i. I'll push something similar to the release > notes for squeeze. Thanks. > Committed the following. Cheers, Julien diff --git a/en/issues.dbk b/en/issues.dbk index 398c6ff..06497a6 100644 --- a/en/issues.dbk +++ b/en/issues.dbk @@ -290,6 +290,21 @@ works for <literal>root</literal>. </para> </section> +<section arch="sparc"> + <!-- bug#602853 --> + <title>Boot hangs on certain SPARC systems</title> + <para> + Systems using aty graphics cards (for example, Ultra 10) may not boot + correctly, with kernel freezing early in the boot stage with last message + <quote>console [tty0] enabled, bootconsole disabled</quote>. The issue + may be worked around by adding a kernel boot parameter + <literal>video=atyfb:off</literal> to turn off the framebuffer during + boot, which allows the installer (and regular kernel) to be booted on such + systems. A fixed kernel should be available in the first update to + &releasename; (Debian 6.0.1). + </para> +</section> + </section> <section id="apache2" condition="fixme">
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